Artist: Various Artists
Title: FOR A BITTER TOMORROW: Band 2
Premiere Artist: Jónbjörn
Track Title: Chica
Label: Bitterfeld Musik
Cat #: BIT007
Release date: 17.03.2023
Format: vinyl, digital

@jonbjorn
@bitterfeldmusik

Bitterfeld Musik returns with their second sampler, FOR A BITTER TOMORROW: Band 2. With this we welcome back label mainstay, Interviews along with additions to the label, Salomo, Qwerty and Jónbjörn for a collection of detriot electro, techno and braindance.

grab your 12"

Premiere | Jónbjörn - Chica (BIT007)

@jack_roland
@lonelyplanetsrec
"Lonely Planets Rec re-welcomes stargazer Jack Roland for its 8th release. The Amsterdam-based producer blasts off with an irresistible fabric of futuristic Midwestern electronics. Each cut is programmed in a disc- scratched techno dreamscape, smearing elements of braindance and electro into a shoegazy gauze. Warping us through a totally fabricated time bending vision, destining us into a final recollection of irony and elegance. It felt like a kiss."

Vinyl

*PREMIERE* Jack Roland - 1994 Is Gone

"My music is Italo-ghetto. The noise of cutlery and news coming out of the buildings at dinner time, the scents of foreign spices that join the bubbling of traditional sauteed vegetables."

Italo-ghetto combines the sounds of everyday life in Italian communities with traditional and pop music with an aim to challenge the global electro-techno scene and promote urban regeneration.

They also support various human rights orgnisations and founded an independent Italian cultural centre called Tempio del Futuro Perduto. Additionally, the artist curates street photography, performing arts, and sex-positive projects. All proceeds from the sale of the music will be allocated towards urban regeneration experiences.

Story Begins: 
In a small hamlet, nestled among hills so green, Lived two young lovers, Mario and serene Lucia, it seemed. They danced and swayed to the beats so bold, At the famed club, Industrial Romantico, we're told.

Smoke Some Italo Ghetto, the music that they adored, It cast a spell on them, forevermore. Mario and Lucia, two hearts entwined, Danced the night away, lost in their own mind.

The club may have vanished, but their love stayed strong, For years they danced to the same old song. As they grew old, they watched the sunset, On the porch of their home, without regret.

The music of Industrial Romantico may have gone, But their love for each other will forever go on. For Mario and Lucia, two hearts now one, Danced to the beat of love, till the setting sun.

PREMIERE: Industrial Romantico - Smoke Some [Italo Ghetto Records]

"OpenAI has company... the room full of monkeys has returned with the development of ChimpGPT. Natural language algorithms have been outmatched by natural simian energy."

Brooklyn duo Infinite Monkey Theorem's output matches electronic and instrumental influences to craft music aimed at the dancefloor. There's obvious doffs of the cap to IDM, breakbeat and leftfield club sounds but also elements of shoegaze, free jazz and soundsystem music bubbling up under the surface.

For their new release, ChimpGPT, the pair share five tracks of off-kilter club cuts laced with guitars and hypnotic bass lines. And it's all for a great cause too - they're donating all proceeds from the release to UN Women, the UN organisation who do important work to protect women's rights and end violence against women across the world.

PREMIERE: Infinite Monkey Theorem - Lydia Phreaks

DMX Krew - Time Holes EP - OPM01
Label: Operation Madness (https://soundcloud.com/operation-madness)
BUY LINK: https://operationmadness.bandcamp.com/album/opm01-dmx-krew-time-holes-ep

New label Operation Madness records curated by french young blood DVDE has just dropped his first release with legendary producer DMX Krew ! A BOMB EP composed by 6 hot tracks between funky synths, groovy bass lines and crazy beats ! A definitely needed record as it is pure madness... !

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : DMX Krew - 2 More 606es

@fixedrhythms @sweateronpolo

Fixed Rhythms is proud to welcome back to its roster one of their closest allies in sonic liberation, New York City’s Mali Mase, this time under his new techno alias MAL.E. Fixed Rhythms released Mali's "Travel International EP" under his beloved Sweater On Polo moniker. This go-around it's time to crank up the BPMs and stomp. This is serious techno but not for the serious techno chin-scratchers...calling all dance-floor freedom finders...hear the call and answer with your feet!

[PREMIERE] Passage 3 - MAL.E | Fixed Rhythms [2023]

La chasse, translating to “the hunt” in French, is a metaphorical statement about what it means to be an artist. Being a creative of any kind means being driven by hunger that can only be satisfied through the expression of oneself, the externalizing of something that lives within us - and, in many cases, the yearning to watch others interact or react to our art, in the hopes that they recognize themselves within it as well.

La chasse is the feeling of chasing that release and all of the steps that must come before a piece of our internal, creative world, is relinquished for the consumption of others. Furthermore, it’s an allusion to the fact that this creative drive catches itself in a never ending cycle - the satisfaction of releasing art never satiates us for very long before we are on the hunt again, to share ourselves with the world.

*full album purchase gives access to a bonus 9-minute ambient track by Vorp, exclusively available on bandcamp, grab it here: https://darkheavenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-chasse

PREMIERE: Vorp - Bow & Arrow [Dark Heaven]

Radiofear’s EP Skyline, captures the contemporary experience of inhabiting the megacity of Seoul, where a myriad of concrete buildings extend themselves to form a skyline.


Radiofear
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rdfr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radiofear/

Ozelot Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ozelot-ltd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ozelotltd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozelotltd/

OZED009

PREMIERE: Radiofear - City Report (Ozelot Records)

Buy it on Bandcamp

Seeking for the Dancefloor

@ryogoyamamoritracks

Proxima returns with its third compilation — a panoramic journey through sound, spanning deep techno, progressive house, minimal and psychedelic realms. Each track reflects a distinct vision yet contributes to a shared continuum — a dialogue between textures, tempos and inner landscapes.

🎐⋆.ೃ࿔✳️🌸*:･

Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep
Artwork by Robert Paul Duggan

Bandcamp

Ryogo Yamamori  - Euphoria [Proxima]

K-Fel & LM - Rebel (Original Mix)

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With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

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